Death of a Love, Birth of a Ghost

city-wide operation, but it yielded nothing.

ry database, every flight manifest, every bus ticket out of the city for

desk, rattling a crystal glass. "Vanishe

g at her eyes with a tissue. She had just co

trembling. "I saw Timothy. He's so

"He keeps asking why his aunt won't come to save him

, designed to stoke Jaimen's

t to my old number, a number that h

now with Lily. If you're not at the hospital by tomorrow

e. No

ified. He sent

rag you back and subject you to the Cline family's punishment.

his arm. "Don't be so harsh, Jaimen. Christee

thing. Money? A house? Anything to convince her. I'll get on m

y at her apparent selflessness. His mind, however, dri

look on my face.

he doctors said it's risky. Lily has a congenital heart murmur.

hought. "The doctor also said her marrow is a 100% matc

nds clutching his shirt. "You can't sacrifice

around me, a ghost of a sound. "He

ting that silenced my protests. He had shoved me to the ground.

Proceed with the extraction. Take more than you need. I want he

s as if my ghostly form could

s face, a flicker of something unreadable in his eyes. He was

lf. "If she had just listened back then, Ti

ilent, invisible observer. A bi

living woman to punis

he was huntin